Komatsu, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of construction
and mining equipment, has selected NVIDIA as its partner to bring
AI to jobsites, making them safer and more efficient, NVIDIA
announced today.
The partnership – described at GTC Japan by NVIDIA founder and
CEO Jensen Huang – will focus on Komatsu using NVIDIA GPUs to
visualize and analyze entire construction sites. The NVIDIA®
Jetson™ AI platform will serve as the brain of heavy machinery
deployed on these sites, enabling improved safety and
productivity.
“Artificial intelligence is sweeping across industries, and its
next frontier is autonomous intelligent machines,” said Huang,
speaking at NVIDIA’s final of seven global GPU Technology
Conferences this year. “Future machines will perceive their
surroundings and be continuously alert, helping operators work more
efficiently and safely. The construction and mining industries will
benefit greatly from these advances.”
Construction is the latest in a series of industries in which
NVIDIA has signed agreements with market leaders to help
revolutionize how they operate. Among these are partnerships with
GE Healthcare and Nuance in the area of medical imaging; FANUC in
the field of robotics; and more than 225 car makers, startups and
research houses – among them, Audi, Tesla, Toyota and Volvo – for
autonomous driving.
Construction Industry Primed for AI’s
BenefitsSafety risks and inefficiencies in the
construction industry make it particularly well suited for
improvements powered by AI.
Construction sites are generally considered among the more
dangerous workplaces because of the presence of heavy equipment,
uneven terrain and continuous activity. Last year, sites in Japan
alone recorded some 300 deaths and more than 15,000 injuries,
according to the Japan Construction Occupational Safety and Health
Association.
And Japan’s construction industry is particularly challenged
because of the nation’s severe labor shortage due to an aging
population. Of the 3.4 million skilled workers in the domestic
industry (as of 2014), roughly 1.1 million, or one-third, are
likely to leave in the next decade, according to the Japan
Federation of Construction Contractors.
AI to Augment Komatsu’s “SMARTCONSTRUCTION”
InitiativeTo help address these issues, Komatsu began in
2015 rolling out its “SMARTCONSTRUCTION” initiative, connecting
data related to onsite workers and objects to make worksites safer
and more productive. The initiative has been introduced in more
than 4,000 sites across the country, with plans to expand both
domestically and internationally.
“We’ll start integrating NVIDIA GPUs into our construction
sites,” said Yuichi Iwamoto, senior executive officer, chief
technology officer at Komatsu. “By leveraging NVIDIA’s experience
in image processing, virtualization and AI, we can further
transform construction areas into jobsites of the future.”
Extending the SMARTCONSTRUCTION initiative, Komatsu will use NVIDIA
technology to create 3D visualizations of construction sites,
showing the real-time interaction of people, machinery and objects.
Costly onsite equipment can be closely monitored to ensure it is
used with optimal efficiency.
NVIDIA GPUs will communicate with drones and cameras in the
construction sites, acting as an AI platform for analysis and
visualization. SkyCatch will provide drones to gather and map 3D
images for visualizing the terrain at the edge. OPTiM, an IoT
management-software company, will provide an application to
identify individuals and machinery collected from surveillance
cameras. Both of these Komatsu partners are also members of
NVIDIA’s Inception program for AI startups.
At the center of the collaboration is NVIDIA Jetson, a
credit-card sized platform that delivers AI computing at the edge.
Working in tandem with NVIDIA cloud technology, Jetson will power
cameras mounted on Komatsu’s construction equipment and enable
360-degree views to readily identify people and machines nearby to
prevent collisions and other accidents.
Jetson will also be used in stereo cameras located in the cabs
of construction machines to help assess rapidly changing conditions
in real time and instruct the driver accordingly. Future
applications include high-resolution rendering and virtual
simulations of construction and mining sites along with automated
control of machinery.
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About NVIDIANVIDIA’s (NASDAQ:NVDA) invention of
the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market,
redefined modern computer graphics and revolutionized parallel
computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the
next era of computing — with the GPU acting as the brain of
computers, robots and self-driving cars that can perceive and
understand the world. More information at
http://nvidianews.nvidia.com/.
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safer and more efficient; artificial intelligence sweeping across
industries; the abilities, benefits and impact of AI being used in
the construction and mining industries; construction sites being
considered among the more dangerous workplaces; the abilities,
performance, benefits, impact and future application of NVIDIA’s
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its partners; the plans to expand Komatsu’s SMARTCONSTRUCTION
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